Biosteres: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Braconidae
- Genus
- Biosteres
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Biosteres
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Biosteres
Biosteres is a genus of wasps belonging to the family Braconidae.
The genus was first described by Förster in 1862.
The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
- Biosteres arenarius (Stelfox, 1959) - also known as Opius arenarius in Ireland, found in France, Germany, Turkey, and Iran
- Biosteres blandus (Haliday, 1837) - also known as Opius blandus, hosts include Pegomya and Agromyza
- Biosteres brevipalpis (Thomson, 1895)
- Biosteres carbonarius Nees, 1834
- Biosteres haemorrhoeus (Haliday, 1837) - hosts are of the genus Pegomya, including P. bicolor
- Biosteres longicauda (Thomson, 1895)
- Biosteres spinaciae (Thomson, 1895)
- Biosteres tryoni (Cameron, 1911) - parasitoid of Ceratitis capitata
- Biosteres wesmaelii Haliday, 1837
- Biosteres vandenboschi
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